Gold medallist Mikael Kingsbury of Canada celebrates after the men`s moguls event at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships in Voss, Norway on Wednesday, March 6, 2013.

Photographed by:Hakon Mosvold Larsen, Associated Press

VANCOUVER — Mikael Kingsbury has been so dominant over the last two years in freestyle ski moguls that the notion of him actually getting better seemed next to impossible.

But in Voss, Norway, on Wednesday, the Deux-Montagnes, Que., native put down the run of his career in the super final to win his first FIS world championship title.

And it was good enough to once again relegate rival Alex Bilodeau, the 2010 Olympic champion from Rosemere, Que., to second place.

After topping the field in qualifying and in finals, Kingsbury, who had won 11 of the last 12 single moguls World Cups including all five this season, was brilliant in the six-man super final. He hit a double twisting backflip off the first air and then, for the first time in competition, threw in a cork 1080 (a triple twisting off-axis trick) off the second air to score a season-high 27.59 points.

“It was probably the highest in my life,” Kingsbury said on a conference call. “I was happy with my jumps, my skiing and my time was one of the fastest. It was a good package to win the world championships, one of my great moments, for sure.”

The 20-year-old Kingsbury, who was third in singles and second in dual moguls to Bilodeau at his first worlds in 2011, said he had been dreaming about winning his first title, but insisted he was not really feeling the pressure.

“I felt perfect. My body was perfect, so I knew it could be today. This is the best thing ever.”

His tricks were the biggest in the competition “and it’s good to have that in my back pocket for Sochi (at the 2014 Olympics).”

Bilodeau scored 26.95 on his run, a total that would have won any World Cup this season. And he sounded frustrated afterwards that his run wasn’t considered good enough to win gold.

“It was very hard for me today,” he said on the call. “My skiing delivered. I’ve seen it on video, but I guess there wasn’t enough for the judges today. They didn’t think I was the top skier. It’s all in their hands.”

Asked if he believed he was the best skier on the day, Bilodeau said: “The judges are the only person that can judge that.”

A magnanimous Kingsbury said he and Bilodeau could both win every event and “sometimes it’s going to be me and sometimes it’s going to be him.”

Bilodeau, however, has only one victory this season, in a dual moguls World Cup in Deer Valley, Utah, when Kingsbury was fifth. He has finished second three times in dual moguls and has second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-place finishes in moguls, which is the only Olympic discipline.

Reigning Olympic champion Hannah Kearney of the U.S. won gold in the women’s event, with Miko Ito of Japan taking silver and Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Montreal earning bronze.

Dufour-Lapointe, 18, had fallen in Tuesday’s qualification, but was saved by a new world championships format that allowed everyone who finished lower than 10th a second chance to get into the 18-women finals. She finished first in the second qualification.

“I’m so happy about my medal, but it’s not the medal as much as the path I took to get it,” said Dufour-Lapointe, who admitted she cried hard after the shock of that fall before shaking it off and steeling herself for another shot.

“From all of that, I learned a big lesson, that I am really strong and even if I get a big smash I can always stand up and fight again.”